If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God.

The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners.

When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way.

Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within.

The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.

I can be somebody's and still be my own.

The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa

I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other

I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.

...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.